Oobayashi, Death and the Eternal Life

“the effect of risk aversion on the demand for life insurance: the case of iranian life insurance market”

abstract: about 60% of total premium of insurance industry is pertained?to life policies in the world; while the life insurance total premium in iran is less than 6% of total premium in insurance industry in 2008 (sigma, no 3/2009). among the reasons that discourage the life insurance industry is the problem of adverse selection. adverse selection theory describes a situation where the inf...

Comparison of Quality of Life, Life Satisfaction and Death Anxiety among Intra-Oriented and Outward Elderly

The purpose of this study was to compare the quality of life, life satisfaction, and death anxiety among internally oriented and out-of-home elderly in the home and home of the elderly in Kermanshah in 1396. The statistical population of the study included all elderly people in Kermanshah. A total of 168 people were selected through cluster sampling and elderly residents of the elderly in an ac...

Relitigating life and death.

Life, Death, and Intelligence

Worms, Life and Death

I never expected to spend most of my life studying worms. However, when it came time for me to choose an area for my postdoctoral research, I was intrigued both with the problems of neurobiology and with the approaches of genetics. Having heard that a new “genetic organism” with a remarkably simple nervous system was being explored by Sydney Brenner – the microscopic soil nematode Caenorhabditi...